Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] - in my Brain Damage arc @alexandraerin.com

This isn't absurdism, it's absurdity arising from a confluence of factors that include both generative AI's inability to create realistic representational art with intentionality, and its backers not understanding or caring what the difference is. Absurdism is an artist's answer to such absurdity.

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Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] - in my Brain Damage arc @alexandraerin.com [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 20:45 UTC

"Why can't AI get the right number of fingers" and "why can't AI simply put actually words on the sign" It doesn't know fingers or words. It doesn't know what parts of a pattern have meaning or what they mean. It doesn't get "better" at representing things, because it's not representing them.

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 20:55 UTC

That one of the cops worshiping a car and a giant Bible, that’s like something out of a Stan Kelly cartoon.

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panda, the artful scientist @artfulscientist.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 20:56 UTC

surrealism without intent is so fucking meaningless. part of what makes art interesting to humans is trying to guess what kind of mind made the art. human surreality comes from at least a shared experience (even if it’s just “same species); machine surreality is just boring data.

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